@hanno Technically it's a pre-shared key, no? I think that terminology much better describes what it does, but yeah, nobody is using it.

And I believe using a PSK serves as a very simple but effective purpose: if you're using an unencrypted WiFi, your clients may expose the SSID in their probe requests, making it very easy to create an ad-hoc fake AP for any of the unencrypted networks in their list.

@codinghorror The thing is, the global system has so many issues, and won't be sustainable without far reaching changes.

Why ban ourselves from thinking about them, and only allow ourselves to think about small changes that are more practical, but will only perpetuate the insustainability?

@codinghorror No need to be snarky.

But yeah, I agree it's tough/near impossible to implement because money and power are concentrated so much, and you'd have to have people in money+power acting against their own interest.

But in theory it should work, no?

@SnoopJ @myself @AlSweigart it's also used in indexing, e.g. `a[..., 0]` means `a[:, :, :, 0]` but works for any number of axes.

And I'd also say its equivalence to `pass` is just syntactic sugar.